Name: Sowjanya V

Email: ad115g@r.postjobfree.com

Contact: 952-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 9+ years of IT experience in software testing (Manual, Automation and Performance) of web-based and mobile applications with a solid understanding of Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking

QA Information Technology Professional with diverse experience with emphasis on software quality assurance and testing in the Retail, Banking and HealthCare industries.

Hands on expertise in manual testing, automation testing using selenium and performance testing of client/server and web-based applications using HP LoadRunner, JMETER.

Expertise in preparing performance technical proposals and resource forecasts based on estimates, NFR collection and review, workload design.

Analyzed various Server system parameters like CPU, Memory and Disk using monitoring tools like AppDynamics and Dynatrace

Accomplished and proven with significant experience meeting testing deliverables, implementing and maintaining the testing environment, and working closely with other teams to maintain release schedule.

Proficient in writing test plans and test cases, and performing smoke, integration, systems, user acceptance, and regression testing.

Expertise in manual testing of client/server and web-based applications using Mercury Interaction Test Suite and Microsoft Test Manager.

Solid knowledge in Manual and Automation scripting and extensive experience in software testing process.

Good knowledge in agile methodology of the software process and used JIRA for bug tracking.

Successfully completed a set of software testing projects for Retail, banking financial and healthcare domain.

Proven experience using Microsoft Test Manager and defect tracking systems, such as HP ALM, JIRA, and Spira.

Experienced in functional, regression and knowledge in stress/load performance testing of web-based and client/server applications using Mercury Interactive Test Suite, Win Runner, and Load Runner.

evaluation of software requirements and development of QA plans, QA test scripts, and acceptance criteria for various testing phases.

Had hands-on experience in building Jenkin (CICD pipeline) jobs to trigger auto deployments and to automate test execution.

Had hands on experience on applications which were migrated from on prime to AWS Cloud.

Strong understanding of Software Skilled in the Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.

Comfortable working as a member of an integrated team (Product, BA, Development and Implementation teams), as well as independently.

Helped to ensure that high severity bugs are caught during the QA phase, and provided appropriate feedback to the development group on usability, functionality, and quality of user experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP, MS Windows 98/95, LINUX

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager, Postman, HP ALM, JIRA, Load runner, SOAP UI, Rest API, Selenium and JMeter.

Databases: DB2, MS SQL Server & DB2

Languages: Java Basics, SQL.

SD Methodologies: Agile - Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban

Other Tools: Jenkins, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Cloud Watch, Service Now, GitHub, Mesos.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

B TECH from JNTU in 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project#1: Banking/Financial Domain

Client: Ameriprise Financials, MN Sep 2022– Present

Role: QA operations Lead.

Created the detailed test plan and test cases from the business requirements documents and meetings.

Participated in the manual testing and automation of some test cases and created the test scenario.

Served as a member of the User Acceptance Testing team, wrote enhancement requests, and worked with the perspective of the user.

Created automated test scripts using Selenium and executed the testing process.

Coordinated with developers to fix bugs and conducted functional (positive and negative) and integrity testing.

Created the test scenario designs for all the business flows and executed the scenarios in automation testing environment

Participated in a weekly meeting with the management team and walkthroughs with stake holders.

Performed smoke, security, GUI, user acceptance testing.

Created automation test scripts using Selenium and Completed end-to-end testing.

Conducted performance, load and stress testing of the application by creating virtual users.

Defined transactions to measure server performance under load by creating rendezvous points to simulate a heavy server load.

Completed defect tracking and bug reporting using JIRA.

Implemented CI/CD pipeline to streamline the execution with minimal intervention.

Implemented cleanup jobs in a automated way to maintain performance testing environment in ephemeral mode to optimize the cost.

Used service now as part of raising incidents for developers and getting the updates and generated the weekly reports to release walkthrough.

Being team lead, ran the scrum calls and RM meetings when scrum master is not around

Project#2: Retail/Supply Chain Domain

Client: ABC Virginia. April 2022– Sep 2022

Role: Senior QA Analyst

ABC is a United States liquor retailer and distributor. The corporation is headquartered in Virginia, and has been in business for over a century. It is one of the largest liquor retailing companies in the United States.

Supply chain services deals with the systems like Buying the product from Vendor, Receive Orders from Retailers, Ship the product to stores, Invoice the Orders, Create and send accounting files to financial systems.

Designed, created and maintained software test plans and scenarios based on technical specifications, business knowledge and documentation, ensuring the developed software performed as detailed.

Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing of Retail care applications.

As a member of the Scrum team, participated in daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings, as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

Identified, analyzed and documented defects using Team Foundation Server as a defect tracking system.

Worked as a lead and closely worked with the Development, BA and QA teams, as well as stakeholders and Release management.

Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting, and defect reproduction.

Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports, and other test related documents.

Participated in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC.

Coordinated and/or executed test execution cycles, report defects and enhancements, and evaluated the severity of the problems found.

Validated that system output accurately reflected business requirements as outlined in requirements and design documents.

Evaluated the quality of software using software stability, user impact, and project schedule as guides, ensuring management was informed of issues throughout the testing cycle.

Provided advice and assistance to the QA team in the planning, implementation and evaluation of modifications to existing operations, systems and procedures.

Worked closely with offshore Development and QA teams to assign QA tasks.

Client: Stride K12, VA Nov 2021– April 2022

Role: Automation Engineer

Prepared Test cases and Test plans for new functional modules.

Written Grey box and Black box test cases based on the User and Business Requirements.

Actively involved in SDLC and STLC process and used tools like ALM, Selenium RC/Web driver, JMeter, SOAP UI, SSMS and Visio.

Worked on Selenium IDE, the integrated development environment for Selenium scripts using Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

Developed regression scripts using Selenium RC.

Tested the various Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) spanning across various web services using SOAP and WSDL across various applications using SOAP UI.

Extensively used MySQL proficiently during data migrations.

performed data pattern testing checking using SQL

Automated the regression test cases using the Selenium & TestNG.

Attended Daily Stand-Up meetings and provided QA status updates on different user stories.

Automated the Test Cases using Selenium RC, Java Eclipse and JUnit.

Actively participated during functional and regression test cycles. Supported all major production releases.

Performed standalone testing of SOAP/HTTP services using Raw Soap Request step in Lisa Itko .

Expertise in tracking the Defects and log them on Quality Centre, JIRA, Source Forge, Gemini, Clear Quest and Visual Studio.

We used to create and test the policies based on the given requirements by using Duck creek tool, which is basically used to create insurance for auto and property.

Worked closely with the Business Users while performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in staging environment.

Client: American Express April 2020- oct 2021

Role: Quality Assurance Analyst,

Analyzed project baseline documents like requirements documents and Functional Specification to formulate the test cases.

Experience in testing of duck creek billing system.

Involved in informal reviews, technical reviews, static code analysis.

Involved in Creation of Test Plans and Test cases.

Involved in Functionality Testing, Regression Testing and Sanity Testing.

Responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating tests.

Conducted manual testing for the entire application and stored the results in Quality Center.

Conducted functionality, interface, and regression testing during the various phases of the development.

Involved in System testing and UAT.

Performed Positive and Negative testing

Executed SQL Queries for Database Testing.

Documentation of the automation results, execution scripts, pre-requisites, and assumptions.

Tested the application for Broken Links to ensure proper navigation.

Created Bug Reports after the Test Execution.

Client: Walmart, Arkansas Dec 2018- April 2020

Role: Performance Tester

Design, Develop and test Performance scripts and scenarios for web performance using Load Runner for Walmart.

Worked on Projects as well as release level testing in offshore and onshore model.

Design & create Production pattern scenarios, workload model and run logic for the scripts

Performed Smoke, Load, Stress, Endurance, Fail-over, profiling, Configuration (GC Tuning) testing with various load patterns as per load model.

Working on custom development of scripts as per the user flows.

Monitor resource utilization and user end performance metrics using JVisual vm, Jconsole.

Preparing and analyzing reports share with larger audience and seek approval before we migrate to production.

Work on load model based on metrics we populate from current production load.

Client: CVS, USA May 2016- Nov 2018

Role: QA Analyst

Designed, created and maintained software test plans and scenarios based on technical specifications, business knowledge and documentation, ensuring the developed software performed as detailed.

Responsible for conducting smoke, functional, UI, regression and ad-hock testing of Retail healthcare applications.

As a member of the Scrum team, participated in daily stand-up meetings, project status meetings, as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

Identified, analyzed and documented defects using Team Foundation Server as a defect tracking system.

Worked closely with the Development, BA and QA teams, as well as stakeholders and members of management.

Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting, and defect reproduction.

Created tractability matrices, test and bug reports, and other test related documents.

Participated in system integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) on later stages of SDLC.

Coordinated and/or executed test execution cycles, report defects and enhancements, and evaluated the severity of the problems found.

Validated that system output accurately reflected business requirements as outlined in requirements and design documents.

Reported on the status of software testing.

Provided advice and assistance to the QA team in the planning, implementation and evaluation of modifications to existing test cases.

Worked closely with offshore Development and QA teams to assign QA tasks.

Client: Fortune Technologies, India May 2013- July 2015

Role: Functional Tester

Gather Functional Test requirements from business partners.

Create Test Plan, define Test scenarios, identify critical business use cases for existing functionalities and new functionalities.

Develop Test scripts for new requirements, update or maintain regression suite.

Execute Test scenario & Analyze Test results using QC and raise defects if there is deviation in functionality from requirement.

Track stories and update stories with observations in scrum status call.

Create test plan with all test cases and update timeline as per project timeline.

Triage functional & performance issues with involving Dev, Application & other support partners.

Develop a STUB/simulator/responder using LISA/JMeter

Create UI based Sanity Test scripts through postman for Functional scenarios.

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